He beat 40 other finalists, including Martin Sharp, Garry Shead and last year’s winner Ben Quilty, to take the 75,000 Australian dollar (US$77,972) prize for portraiture at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Mr. Storrier’s “Histrionic Wayfarer” is inspired by a 1519 Hieronymus Bosch painting called “The Wayfarer,” which is often interpreted as depicting a choice between vice and virtue. Read More »